Effects of α-phosphoglucomutase deficiency on cell wall properties and fitness in Streptococcus gordonii

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 490-498

  Bizzini, Alain ^a   Majcherczyk, Paul ^a   Beggah Möller, Siham ^a   Soldo, Blazenka ^a   Entenza, José M ^a   Gaillard, Muriel ^a   Lazarevic, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; TEICHOIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE DISRUPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRULENCE;

RATTUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

EID: 33847227731     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29256-0     Document Type: Article

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